Each day this week we're sharing poems by Ireland's top contemporary poets. This week-long celebration will culminate November 2-4 with IAC PoetryFest 2012, our fourth annual festival featuring ten poets presenting their work at IAC, with a special tribute to the distinguished and influential poet John Montague.

Mary O'Malley was born in Connemara in 1954. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Valparaiso (Carcanet, 2012), which emerged from her time on the Irish marine research ship, The Celtic Explorer. Her other work includes A Perfect V (2006) and The Boning Hall (2002), both from Carcanet Press, and Asylum Road (Salmon Poetry, 2001). She is the recipient of awards including the Hennessey Award and the 2009 Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award. She is a member of Aosd?na, the Irish academy of arts and letters. She lives near the village of Moycullen and is a lecturer in writing at the National University of Ireland.

Timothy Donnelly was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1969. He is the author of The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010; Picador, 2012), which was the winner of this year's Kingsley Tuft Award, and of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003). His work has appeared in journals including A Public Space, Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, jubilat, The Paris Review and PEN America. He is Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing at Columbia University and is also Poetry Editor of Boston Review. He lives in Brooklyn.

Literature

in association with

in association with Poetry Society of America and Poetry Ireland

presents

November 2 - 4

We celebrate the fourth annual IAC PoetryFest by expanding our offerings and growing the line-up of terrific energies at work in and around contemporary Irish poetry. This year, the festival reaches exciting new horizons, as it considers the rich relationships between Irish poets and their peers and counterparts in the American scene.

IAC PoetryFest 2012 features a special tribute to the distinguished and influential poet John Montague.

Want to come to both events with John Montague? Purchase A Tribute to John Montague Passhere.

More details: www.irishartscenter.org or 866-811-4111

With assistance from W.B. Yeats Society of New York

This program is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide.

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Submissions for Uniquely Dublin can be in the categories of film, animation, photography, graphic design, written word, visual arts and music.

Winning entry is awarded €10,000, as well as a public exhibition on billboards all over Dublin, and here in the Little Museum of Dublin!

Irish Arts Center programs are supported in part, by Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland's year of Irish arts in America in 2011; the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency; and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.